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Diversity in medtech: Just 20% of executive roles held by women

October 13, 2020 By Danielle Kirsh

Diversity in executive roles in the medical device industry is trending more toward parity, with women holding 2% more C-suite roles in 2020 compared to last year. Just 20% of executives at the 100 largest medical device companies in the world are women, and those companies average 19% female composition in the C-suite, according to […]

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: 3m, Abbott, Alcon, B. Braun, Baxter, becton dickinson, bostonscientific, Cardinal Health, danaher, EssilorLuxottica, Fresenius, GE Healthcare, Henry Schein Medical, johnsonandjohnson, Medtronic, owens&minor, royalphilips, Siemens Healthineers, Stryker, Women in Medtech, Zimmer Biomet

Smith+Nephew is taking the road less traveled with its ortho surgical robotics

October 13, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

British medtech giant Smith+Nephew chose a different path in the ortho surgical robotics space. One of its top robotics program leaders explains how it could make all the difference. Faster, smaller and more accessible — those are the three descriptors that Sara Schneider uses to describe Smith+Nephew’s Cori robotic knee surgery system, which launched over […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Orthopedics, Robotics, Surgical Tagged With: robot-assisted, Robotic Surgery, Smith+Nephew, Women in Medtech

How Medtronic’s new diversity leader wants to make the company even better

October 8, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Dr. Sally Saba joined Medtronic in March after leading a transformation at a major healthcare provider. Sally Saba knows what it’s like to be unwanted because of her gender. Saba’s mother rejected her at birth because she wasn’t a boy, leaving her to live with relatives in Egypt. When her caregiver decided to marry, she […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured Tagged With: diversity and inclusion, Medtronic, Women in Medtech

AI could boost Edwards’ critical care business

October 8, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Critical care comprises nearly 20% of Edwards’ revenue. Its continued growth is connected to the prominence of the company’s heart valve business. Katie Szyman spent 23 years at Medtronic, a giant in the Medtech industry, but a patient-focused outlook became a driving force behind a change for her. Wanting to work for a California-based company […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Digital Health, Featured, Health Technology, Hospital Care, Patient Monitoring, Replacement Heart Valves, Structural Heart Tagged With: Edwards Lifesciences, tavr, Women in Medtech

How Stryker’s Naomi Murray views 3D printing, women in medtech

October 6, 2020 By Sean Whooley

After 18 years in the industry, Murray says women still need to ruffle some feathers. Math and science fascinated Naomi Murray from a young age. Around her junior year in high school, she began to notice that she was one of — if not the only — girl in her math classes. “[When I was […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Orthopedics Tagged With: 3D printing, additive manufacturing, Stryker, Women in Medtech

BioAffinity Technologies CEO Maria Zannes talks cancer detection, women in medtech

September 24, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Maria Zannes and her company BioAffinity Technologies are seeking to up the game on lung cancer detection. Here’s how. Maria Zannes’ path to a leading role in the medtech field wasn’t quite a conventional one. The one-time aspiring journalist carved out a role on Capitol Hill, first as an aide, then as a lobbyist, plus […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Diagnostics, Featured, Genomics/Molecular Diagnostics, Oncology Tagged With: BioAffinity Technologies, Women in Medtech

10 medical device industry stories you need to know

December 27, 2019 By Chris Newmarker

From leadership changes to tax repeal to robots — lots of robots — this was a busy year for the medical device industry. Here are 10 stories in the medtech space that especially caught the eye of MassDevice and Medical Design & Outsourcing editors and readers in 2019. Next>>

Filed Under: 510(k), Business/Financial News, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), News Well, Orthopedics, Regulatory/Compliance, Robotics, Surgical Tagged With: Abbott, ethylene oxide, EU MDR, FDA, Intuitive Surgical, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, robot-assisted, Stryker, tariffs, Theranos, Women in Medtech

Diversity in medtech is up: This top West executive has seen it

November 26, 2019 By Chris Newmarker

Medtech isn’t the male-dominated field it was decades ago and Karen Flynn, chief commercial officer at West Pharmaceutical Services, is here to tell you about it. Karen Flynn’s 35-year career in healthcare saw her rise through Cardinal Health and spinoff Catalent Pharma Solutions before joining West Pharmaceutical Services in 2008. Flynn has been West’s chief […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured Tagged With: West Pharmaceutical Services Inc., Women in Medtech

Insights from Cathy Burzik’s 40 years in the healthcare industry

November 8, 2019 By Sarah Faulkner

From the early days of software development to personalized cell and gene therapies, Cathy Burzik has witnessed a lot of technological evolution over the course of her 40-year career in the healthcare industry. She sat down with DeviceTalks’ former program manager Sarah Faulkner for an interview at AdvaMed’s The MedTech Conference this year, where she […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured Tagged With: AdvaMed, Johnson and Johnson, Kinetic Concepts Inc., Women in Medtech

Navigating the constantly choppy waters of medical device regulation

October 11, 2019 By Danielle Kirsh

Regulations at the FDA and in the European Union are in constant flux, and that’s not even mentioning Brexit. Here’s how one regulatory expert keeps ahead of the changes. The regulatory space for medical devices is always evolving. Manufacturers have to keep up not only with FDA regulations, but other countries’ rules ­ not to […]

Filed Under: Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: Eastman Chemical, Women in Medtech

Diversity in medtech: Just 18% of executive roles held by women

September 23, 2019 By Danielle Kirsh

Just 18% of the executives at the 100 largest medical device companies are women, and those companies average only 15% female composition in the C suite, according to an analysis of Medical Design & Outsourcing’s annual Big 100. Of the 969 leadership roles in the companies on our list, only 172 are held by women, for an […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Well Tagged With: Big 100, Women in Medtech

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